The 2017 machine learning outlook

Tower viewer. (source: Pexels).Join Steven Camiña of MemSQL for “Building the Ideal Stack for Machine Learning,” where he’ll share how to use real-time data for machine learning. Machine learning has been a mainstream commercial field for some time now, but it’s going through an important acceleration. In this podcast episode, I talk about that acceleration with two executives from MemSQL, a company that specializes in in-memory databases: Gary Orenstein, MemSQL chief marketing officer, and Drew Paroski, MemSQL vice president of engineering. Orenstein and Paroski identify a few crucial inflections in the machine learning landscape: machine learning models have become easier to write; computing capacity on the cloud has increased dramatically; and new sources of data—everything from drones to smart-home devices and industrial controllers—have added new richness to machine learning models.…